House, techno and electronic music news, releases and events from across Asia.
Yeti Out started as two brothers and a friend blagging free entry to parties by pretending to write about them. Sixteen years later they run a Hong Kong radio station, a record label, and the crew Boiler Room called when it finally came back to the city.
Nineteen years after co-founding the Korean electro-rock trio Idiotape, Dguru has started his own label, Sangsu Records, built around Seoul's club and live scenes and the sounds that don't fit neatly into either.
House Cartel spent over a decade as outsiders fighting Jakarta's big room dominance from the DJ booth. Now the collective has quietly turned itself into a label, House Cartel Records, two EPs deep and counting.
Thai vocalist Chucheewa Cheepchoke and producer Vichaya Vatanasapt wrote a stripped-back love song called Galactic Love. Their new label Soundkoh Collective's first release turns it into six versions, remixed across Thailand, Korea and Germany.
In April 2024, Yangon's Red Room club put its own scene on record: twelve local producers, one compilation, no label behind it. Two years into a civil war, the room that made it is still open.
She learned to DJ from a stranger on the third floor of a family bar in Yangon during blackouts and curfew. Now Lynn Nandar Htoo, known as LnHD, throws femme-led parties on Phnom Penh's Bassac Lane, co-runs a platform for Southeast Asian women producers, and has played Berlin's CTM Festival.
Bali's house and techno scene is not one scene. It is three, split across a stretch of coastline that traffic turns into an hour or more between any two points. Here is what each area actually offers after dark, and how to pick a base without losing a night of your trip to a taxi.
Cebu's underground fits in one converted pizza-building basement. Boracay's four stations each pick a different kind of night. Real venues, real prices, and what to skip on the Philippines' two biggest party islands.
Andrew Chow, aka DJ Wiz, was Zouk's Phuture resident and a three-time DMC Singapore champion. He died August 3 of stomach cancer, five weeks before a Legacy Award he won't be there to collect.
The two Colombian-heritage producers built their first extended collaboration from a 2024 meeting in Mexico City. It lands on Domino's Smugglers Way, out now, vinyl remixes due in November.
Before you book a flight to dance in Bangkok, Phuket or Chiang Mai: how many visa-free days you actually get, why the digital arrival card matters, and what's changed about closing times, drinking hours and cannabis since 2025.
Three floors under the Mandarin Oriental in Kuala Lumpur, KYO built a concrete DJ booth to survive a tank and blew half its budget on a sound system Seth Troxler called possibly the best in the world. A decade later, its techno room Ren is still running.